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iPhone 11 Camera Parodies is a series of jokes, memes and image macros based on the multiple camera lens present on the Apple's iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro camera design.

Origin

On September 10th, 2019, Apple announced the release of the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro. Both iteration of the phone included a multi-lens camera system, with the iPhone 11 featuring two lenses on the back of the phone and the iPhone 11 Pro featured three camera lenses on the back of the phone (clip below).

Spread

In the hours leading up to the phone's release and the immediate moments after, people on Twitter began parodying the design, posting edited images of the devices with even more cameras. For example, that day, Twitter^[1] user @baselinejhope shared an image of the phone with more than a dozen different camera lenses. Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 13,000 likes and 3,000 retweets (shown below, left).

Others shared jokes about the phone. Twitter^[2] user @UmarNazir9 labeled each of the cameras various government agencies, implying that they would be used to spy on users. The tweet received more than 3,000 likes and 1,600 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, center). Twitter^[3] user @imKangkanSarma edited the three cameras so that they look like the burners of a stoke. They captioned the tweet, "Tim Cook ‘ing on the new iPhone 11." Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 1,100 likes and 530 retweets (shown below, right).

Several media outlets covered the comparisons and parodies, including eBaum's Word, ^[4] SF Gate,^[5] CNet,^[6] PopCulture.com,^[7] Alternative Press,^[8] Mashable ^[9] and more.

Twitter published two Events pages on the announcement.^[10][11]

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